Monday, August 17, 2009

MSM

This really isn't 'venting' -- it's truly clearheaded and excellent advice (emphasis added):
Obama isn't saying the right thing. He should be saying, "Stop lying." Or maybe he should send Biden out to say it. That's probably the best thing.

I'm not basing this on some misguided sense that being aggressive is what's required. Rather, I'm basing it on how the MSM works. They report what politicians say. And they don't fact check them. That's the system -- maybe you don't like it. I don't like it either. But it's not changing any time soon.

This reminds me of an idea I read somewhere a few weeks ago about combating the town hall disruptions by playing the national
anthem over the PA system whenever anybody starts shouting down the speakers -- either the disruptors shut up and stand with their hands on their hearts, thereby losing their momentum, or they continue to shout, which gives the MSM an easily-digested meme: "people disrespecting the national anthem".

Both ideas involve very simple, straightforward actions that (1) need no simplification and (2) provide short, simplistic, reductive soundbites. The MSM eats this sort of stuff up. In contrast, the WH recently unveiled a web site to combat the insanity, which as far as I can tell was designed specifically to be ignored by the MSM. The site looks like an example of the legal tactic I've seen in  movies of responding to a request for information from the opposing legal team by shipping them forty-six boxes of documents. The information they want is in there somewhere, and nobody can say you're withholding information.



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